Stimuli
Too much noise. Too much movement
ed. by Bartomeu Mari ; text Jos ten Berge, Georg Simmel

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Author(s)

Jos ten Berge, Georg Simmel

Editor(s)

Bartomeu Mari

Publication

Rotterdam : Witte de With, center for contemporary art, 1999

Scope

48 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9073362458

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"Too much noise. Too much movement" that is how Georges Duhamel decribed his perception of cinema in 1930, expressing the disturbance that the filmic image produced in his ability to pervieve and understand he world. This book does not illustrate the exhibition Stimuli (held at Witte de With between November 21, 1999 and Februari 13, 2000), but offers a path through its motivations and phatasmagorias.The exhibition unfolds aroudn the notions of Hypnosis and ecstasy Delivering an anti formalist reading of art, Stimuli emphasizes physical sensation as the instigator and fundamental reason of art at the close of the 20 centurry.About the perception of Cinema.

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Person as subject

Georges Duhamel, Walther Benjamin, Guy Debord, ...[et al.]

Keywords

film , art theory , visual culture

Location

Cabinet 9 - 5: Kunst stromingen en thema's

Remarks

Inlcudes notes